History

Tunisia was inhabited since prehistoric times. Traces of human presence have been discovered in the deep layers of the Paleolithic.

The Tunisian first known inhabitants are Berbers.

814 Av. JC: Foundation of Carthage by Phoenician settlers led by Queen Dido, also called Elyssa.
The new city is developing rapidly becoming a major center of civilization and a formidable power that worries Rome
264 - 146 Av. JC: Three wars against Rome - passed down to posterity under the name of "Punic Wars" - are engaged leading, among other things, the great expedition by Hannibal across the Alps with his elephants (218-202 BC). These wars end with the defeat of Carthage.
146 Av. JC- 439:  Establishing the first Roman colony "Africa." The country enjoyed great prosperity. Agriculture and urbanization are growing.
439: Conquest of Tunisia Carthage by the Vandals

533: Takeover of Carthage by the Byzantines.

647-698: Top of the Arab-Muslim. Foundation of Kairouan by Oqba Ibn Nafaa (670) and capture of Carthage by the Arabs (698).800-909 : Expansion of Islam and establishment of the Dynasty Aghlabids (construction of the Zaytuna Mosque, Tunis). Kairouan is then the political and intellectual center of the Maghreb.909-1159: Fatimid dynasties and Zirid. Mahdia, founded in 921, became the tunisiens capital.1159-1230: Almohads unify the Maghreb countries and Andalusia.1236: The Hafsids, vassals Almohad declare themselves independent and founded a new dynasty in Tunis who reigned until 1574.1574: Tunisia is annexed to the Ottoman Empire.

1705: Foundation of Dynasty Husaynites (fallen 25 July 1957). 1881-1956: French Protectorate, established May 12, 1881. The anti-colonial resistance persisted for all 75 years of French rule. Led first by the party Destourien (1920), the fight has picked up with the neo-Destour from 1934. 1956 (March 20): Tunisia gained independence. 1957 (July 25): Proclamation of the Republic of Tunisia. Habib Bourguiba became president of independent Tunisia. 1959 (June 1): adoption of the first constitution of the Republic of Tunisia. 1963 (l5 October): The French evacuate Bizerte, their last base in the country. 1987 (November 7): Under the Constitution, Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, succeeds President Bourguiba, judged by his doctors unable to continue his duties. President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali is invested by Parliament as President of the Republic. 1989 (April 2): Presidential and legislative elections. Election of President Ben Ali to universal suffrage. 1994 (March 20): Tunisia Presidential and legislative elections. Re-election of President Ben Ali and access of the opposition in Parliament, for the first time in the history of independent Tunisia. 1999 (October 24): Re-election of President Ben Ali after the first multiparty presidential election in the history of Tunisia. The opposition wins 20% of the 182 seats in the Chamber of Deputies by reforming the Electoral Code. The number of women in Parliament increased from 11 to 21. 2002 (May 26) Nearly three and a half million voters made their way to the polls to participate in the first referendum in the history of Tunisia on the proposed fundamental reform of the Constitution proposed by President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali the Tunisian people to say its last word on it. 2002 (June 1): President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali promulgates the constitutional law on the reform of the Constitution after its approval by the Tunisian people in the referendum held May 26, 2002.
2004 (October 24): President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was elected October 24, 2004 for a fourth term, after the second multiparty presidential election in the history of Tunisia. 
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